The last Sweet Home Café: Chef’s Station will be held Friday, Feb. Hall’s cookbook, Cooking With Love: Comfort Food That Hugs You, will be available for sale and signing during the event, and the Chef’s station will feature recipes from her cookbook.įor the second Sweet Home Café: Chef’s Station, Chef Aaron Andrews and Chef Robert Rivera of Thompson Hospitality will share their passion for the culinary arts and answer diners’ questions Friday, Feb. to 3 p.m., renowned pastry chef “Suga Chef” Padua Player will join Hall for the first Sweet Home Café: Chef’s Station-a special greeting event. In addition to the special menu, the museum will host programs with African American chefs for visitors inside the museum. The museum’s Sweet Home Café, a 2017 James Beard Award semifinalist, is a joint venture between Restaurant Associates and the Thompson Hospitality group. Visitors can learn more about featured chefs and their recipes on the museum’s blog. The menu is available throughout the month of February. Carla Hall, the museum’s culinary ambassador, headlines the cast of African American culinary powerhouses who will bring African American heritage to the museum’s table this month.įrom Zephyr Wrights’ chili con queso with skillet cornbread to Leah Chase’s stewed chicken in brown gravy, the special menu honors African American culinary legends seen in the museum’s fourth-floor foodways exhibit. In celebration of African American History Month, Sweet Home Café at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture has created a special menu and will welcome special guest chefs throughout February.

Sweet Home Café Cookbook by NMAAHC